Bloat may refer to:

Biology and medicine

* Bloat (canine) (gastric dilatation volvulus), an overstretched and rotated stomach in dogs *

Bloat (ruminant) Ruminal tympany, also known as ruminal bloat, is a disease of ruminant animals, characterized by an excessive volume of gas in the rumen. Ruminal tympany may be primary, known as frothy bloat, or secondary, known as free-gas bloat. In the rumen, fo ...

(ruminal tympany), an excessive volume of gas in ruminants *

Bloating Abdominal bloating (or simply bloating) is a short-term disease that affects the gastrointestinal tract. Bloating is generally characterized by an excess buildup of gas, air or fluids in the stomach. A person may have feelings of tightness, pres ...

, an abnormal swelling or enlargement of the abdomen * Gas bloat syndrome, a complication of

Nissen fundoplication A Nissen fundoplication, or laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication when performed via laparoscopic surgery, is a surgical procedure to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and hiatal hernia. In GERD, it is usually performed when medical thera ...

surgery

Computing

Code bloat In computer programming, code bloat is the production of program code (source code or machine code) that is perceived as unnecessarily long, slow, or otherwise wasteful of resources. Code bloat can be caused by inadequacies in the programming lang ...

, computer code that is unnecessarily long, slow, or wasteful of resources *

Software bloat Software bloat is a process whereby successive versions of a computer program become perceptibly slower, use more memory, disk space or processing power, or have higher hardware requirements than the previous version, while making only dubious use ...

, uncontrolled and damaging growth of a software system through successive versions

Other uses

* Bloat (''Wild Cards''), a character in the ''Wild Cards'' book series * Bloat, a pufferfish and the character in the '' Finding Nemo'' franchise {{disambiguation